User talk:Rose Abrams/Archive 2

It was good news!

An unconscious piece of computer program that stills provides the occasional sunshine!

I saw the big blue 1 at my inbox in the middle of a big category cleanup and thought "oh dear, someone's already gonna revert-war?". But instead, it was the humble software saying that this was my 1000th edit! My god, that was a pleasant surprise :) Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (click to talk) 10:17, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Your views on a page, please?

Hello Gaioa...you may recall helping me develop my article on Joe Clifford, in particular getting it to meet notability criteria. I've been working on another article about an author, Tom Pitts. After some discussion, that piece was moved to Draft mode for continued development. Mainly, it's been harder to meet notability criteria in this case. I've been doing some more work on it. I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and let me know how close you think it is to being suitable for resubmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Tom_Pitts Thank you. Rory1262 (talk) 18:35, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@Rory1262:. Hi. Yes, I do remember that discussion that we had. But I'd like to point out that my scrutiny of the last article was not out of "interest". I am not by any chance more reliable than anyone else in the topic of notability, and have never been. The only reason I went into Joe Clifford was because of edit patrolling at Special:RecentChanges. Therefore, I must politely decline your request for advice. Try navigating the policies yourself - that way you'll learn in the process too. Start at WP:N and work your way to understanding Wikipedia. Kudos! Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (click to talk) 02:27, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks all the same. :) Rory1262 (talk) 13:23, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...

... for adding humour to an infobox discussion! - I stopped commenting, find them a complete waste of time, but read of course, and your deity box made my day! I just read again what I said in 2013, - no need to change, I'll just add 2017.

Happy 2018 for you! (don't miss to click on the image of a green heart) ----Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:29, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: (corrects tie and flickers cigarette, in gentlemanly thankfulness and humility) Hehe, thanks. All in a day's work.
And humor aside, it really feels like the core argument of the anti-infobox people, making Kubrick and others appear inhuman. A high five for infobox continuity✋️! Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 13:07, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Call me Gerda, please, and take the tie off: the cabal of the outcasts is open for you! (That is a group started in opposition to one person alone doing TFA, - and now one of us is a TFA delegate, so we hope) - I'll add another comment to the subpage, by Voceditenore. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you but no thank you for the invite, Gerda. I have decided not to enter any WikiProjects at all, since I want to keep my interest in editing Wikipedia purely and strictly casual. Joining a gang would likely give me a participation-stress a la Facebook. So nothing personal :) Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 21:31, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

You made me smile again. I only said it's open, no? You are not the first to whom I say that you are a member by what you do ;) - I formatted your deity box, hope that was ok? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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Sir thank you sir! I'll get on the backlog immediately! Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 19:07, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Gaioa. Thanks for volunteering. I've noticed you've made a number of PRODs. Would you mind re-reading WP:PRODNOM, and particularly WP:DEL-REASON, since a current article's state and current sources are generally not a good reason for proposing any kind of deletion. ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 21:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

@Hydronium Hydroxide: Aha, I think I understand your concern. And yes, I may have marked some articles for PROD for 1) deeming bad sources as basis for non-N, rather than searching for N myself thus assuring whether or not N exist, and 2) called out some articles for being unimproved throughout a certain timespan, as if they had some kind of rule about "improvement deadline" akin to CSD#G13. But well, it's ny first day with this, and I'm learning from your advice - I just ended my patrolling session and will refresh my mind a bit, so I'll come back and do things right next time. Wikilove to you for letting me know!
Also, I consider the point of PROD (calling itself "uncontroversial deletion") to be a way of saying "almost but not quite CSD" and/or "maybe CSD but not sure" - correct me if I'm wrong in this modus operandi. Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 21:27, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

A Prod is useful if you're sure that a page would be deleted at AFD due to failing both GNG and any SNGs, you don't expect the page creator to object, and you expect your justification to convince the admin who'll assess it (as well as any other random patrollers and page watchers who come across it). Not saying these shouldn't be deleted (or that others will necessarily agree with my assessments) just that they shouldn't be for the reasons you've stated:

• Samuel "Savoirfaire" Williams: Need to assess against WP:NMUSIC. There are a couple of possible claims there.
• Government Barisal College: This would have used to have been an automatic keep WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES/WP:INDAFD, but schools have been cracked down a bit in the last six months or so. Without digging, it would probably be a delete but would likely be controversial at AFD.
• Greening the Pipeline: Multi-million dollar public works project with news coverage. Possibly too soon for an article, but certainly a merge/redirect candidate to Western Treatment Plant#Main Outfall Sewer or Federation Trail
• Nick Walsh (referee): Top-level referees for baseball and cricket are presumed notable. Football referees aren't, but would need a search.
• Raymond Transportation: If something smells copypasted then use https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/ to find it, and if so then either fix + request a WP:REVDEL, or speedy WP:G12

... plus your speedies for Apolonia Fier (women), KF Dajti (women), and The Door (Albania) are invalid since all compete in the (top-level) women's football championship which is at minimum a WP:CCS, and almost certainly sufficient to establish notability. I know there's a backlog at NPP, but would you please consider participating (slowly, carefully and with assessments based on notability guidelines and WP:BEFORE) at AFD instead, for the near future? Thanks, ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 22:00, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

I am aware that there's a lot of documentation on N, especially about differing topics. Most of these, I browsed through. Once again, I think the mistake I did was to base my judgement solely on sources present as opposed to search myself. So yes, I agree that the bottom line here is sit down and have a cup of tea. Well, sorry you had to follow my tracks and clean up my mess, but maybe that's all in a day's work for you, kind sir or madam :)
One more thing: is there a quick way to access the "Find sources" links on the bottom of {{notability}}? If there was an addon or something for just autogenerating these links on any article's interface, that would be perfect. I bet my right arm that there is and I've not heard of it. Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 22:13, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

The reason I suggest AFD is that it's a gentler ramp because you can see on what grounds others assess an article's notability (ideally including the closing admin when there are competing arguments). Sorry, no idea re any add-on. Cheers, ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 22:28, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Wonderful, and I'll look for such an addon - surely someone must share my need. Thanks for everything! Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (talk) 22:39, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

New Year (Auld Lang Syne)

I think your addition of an explicit mention that we bid farewell to the old year on New Year's Eve can be left in place. Given we're talking about the conventional Gregorian new year there's only one moment we can logically "farewell" it, so the calendar reference is just a little redundant, but the redundancy doesn't "grate", and the resulting text remains clear and consecutive. More importantly, the link between bidding farewell to the new year and the other "farewell" uses of the song mentioned in the next sentence is not lost. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 13:33, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

List of highest-grossing non-English films

Hi, the issue of which country is the film's origin does not always have a clear answer. That is why sometimes multiple countries are/should be listed. For example if you look at films such as The Hobbit (film series), which if you only use one country to identify it, would it really be accurate to only list New Zealand and not the United States? There are many examples I'm sure you are aware of.

A second point I want to point out is the nature of co-production between mainland China and Hong Kong film industries. Today, there are Hong Kong films does not have mainland financing/investments, but these are typically small art-house films. In terms of big budget commercial film-making (such as The Monkey King series), the clear exact line between what is considered mainland China and Hong Kong film productions is very much vague, even professionals would find it difficult to define it. They are typically financed by mainland China production companies (source Variety [1]) and are primarily targeted at mainland China market. That is why when it comes to films like these co-productions, it is hard to categorize them.--Getareu8 (talk) 12:56, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Uh, let's take this on the article-specific talk instead. Don't wanna WP:OWN this article more than necessary. Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (t,c,l) 14:43, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Please note that I have removed your statement as it made accusations about other editors without presenting any evidence. You can find your statement in the page history and please do feel free to re-add it with links to diffs that demonstrate what you said. GoldenRing (talk) 14:08, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

In that case I'll leave it. Feels like too much of a hassle to go through with an issue I didn't see as WP-breaking. Enjoy your case. Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (t,c,l) 16:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hmpf. I find it a bit sad that some editing must be followed by some sort of Miranda warning. It feels like it just strays further from the spirit of "free editing for all". But well, if Arbcom finds it necessary, who am I to question? Cheers for the coffee. Already knew all of it, but thanks anyway. Thankful for cooperation, thankful for Wikipedia, Gaioa (t,c,l) 21:31, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Hey, if I had it my way we'd just allow the {{ds/editnotice}}s to be sufficient warning (seems like any logical person would know to read something that noticeable ... but alas, a lot of wikilawyering got people off the hook for DS violations at AE... and now this is the result: all editors have to get one of these for the page restriction system to work at all). You're not the first person to complain about this new requirement having to be implemented in such an "axe in place of a scalpel" routine, but there's sadly nothing I can do about it. It's either get yelled at by editors for not giving them one of these, or being yelled at by editors for giving them one (I realize you're not yelling... but there have been a few in the past 48 hours that haven't been so pleasant). It really is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 06:30, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

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Spirit of the Beehive

Why did you remove this film when it has 22 reviews? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:51, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld:Because it had no critics consensus! That what we decided on, not the 20 reviews mark! Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 16:54, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Ah OK, seems a reasonable way to assess it. Must take ages to check them all though! Thanks for doing this!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:56, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Re: Mentiri

Presumably you wanted to notify Zulfadli51, who wrote the article, not me. {{fansite}} doesn't really seem appropriate here; if you're concerned about POV, a simple {{POV}} might by better. I'm also a little surprised by {{overly detailed}}: on the whole it seems like a fairly reasonably locality article. What would you like trimmed? I'd recommend summarising specific concerns on the talk page. Cheers,—Ketil Trout (^<><!) 16:46, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

@Ketiltrout: Sorry. The Page Curation script sent that message to you, not me. Also, what I meant was that the article had an overall tone of "come visit our town" or "look how awesome my hometown is". It focused more on the quality of life in the city than basic facts such as number of inhabitants and history. Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 21:56, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Not a problem. I'd probably use {{advert}} for those sorts of issues.—Ketil Trout (^<><!) 07:50, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of last words

The article List of last words has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A collection of quotes belongs to Wikiquote, not to Wikipedia. In fact, on Wikiquote there is already a more complete list, namely q:Last words, so there is no need to have this page here.

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@Superchilum: Quoth my edit summary: i know about that Wikiquote article, did you even read the article or the talk page?? If this article goes, it's through a proper and full AfD Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 17:23, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Is it possible that the author of an article remove the proposal of deletion without waiting for a discussion? And when he creates and article, he fills a list dedicated to "WikiSnobs" that will propose that article for deletion? You didn't answer to the main reason: a collection of quotes is not Wikipedia, it's Wikiquote, and it already exists there. If that list has some problems, it's better to improve that one rather than this one. Let the discussion go on, please. --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 08:09, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

@Superchilum: YES! You just broke the rules by reinserting a PROD - PRODs can be removed by anyone at anytime and warrants zero discussion from either part. Read before doing.
Also, there is no rule that states all Wikipedia articles must be non-present and non-relevant at other wikis or if there is another wiki for it, it is automatically unsuitable for Wikipedia as you seem to think. We have tons and tons of article about quotations of different kinds, including lists of quotations, such as this, this, and of course all of this.
What I resented was the people who always believe that all forms of "trivia" is unsuitable for WP. But no, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections does not apply to stand-alone pages, Wikipedia:Handling trivia is just an essay and don't even give much solid arguments, and we have previously kept articles such as List of unusual deaths, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck", and their respective deletion discussions.
All of this, I've already stated on the talk. Feels so pointless to go through it again with someone who don't even know how PROD works. Open a AfD instead if you're that concerned, buddy. Thank you. Gaioa (t,c,l) 16:45, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

I'm very very sorry. I thought {{Proposed deletion}} was intended to open a discussion, but that's {{Article for deletion}} instead, now I understand your reaction. Sorry again, I'll be more careful in the future. --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 17:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

@Superchilum: Sorry if I came off as hostile before. Let me help you avoid the same mistakes in the future:

• For most cases of deletion, the Articles for deletion (AFD) policy applies. This will create a full discussion and be closed by an admin when consensus is reached.
• For uncontroversial deletion, the Proposed deletion (PROD) policy applies. This will make an admin delete an article without discussion after 7 days, unless anyone objects.
• For obvious and quick deletion, the Speedy deletion (CSD) policy apples. This will call the attention of an admin to delete the article immediately, if it meets a very strict criterion or criteria.

I further recommend the add-on Twinkle to do any of these actions easily. Cheers and good wikiing! Gaioa (t,c,l) 22:08, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Image at Cold-weather warfare

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Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Rose Abrams, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Concern regarding Draft:List of bizarre laws

Hello, Gaioa. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:List of bizarre laws, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 12:35, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Rose Abrams, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Speedy deletion nomination of Russian Sleep Experiment

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Russian Sleep Experiment requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=861115731&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Faminoapps.com%2Fc%2Furban-legends-cryptids%2Fpage%2Fblog%2Fthe-russian-sleep-experiment%2Fo4Gv_kquduB6Vg5aV77bxaQmNkwwPnzw50. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Moxy (talk) 07:26, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Rose Abrams, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Rose Abrams,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Rose Abrams,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

Training video

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

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Question about a redirect

Hi. I was reviewing new redirects, and I came across 🥰. Can I ask what this has to do with the redirect's target (Romance (love))? --DannyS712 (talk) 07:55, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: Well, because the emoji clearly symbolizes "being in love" and the article is about "being in love". I don't understand the question. Gaioa (T C L) 20:29, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Gaioa: sorry, it showed up as just an empty box (I think it was ☐) when I was on my computer. Sorry for the trouble; the redirect makes total sense. —DannyS712 (talk) 22:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Gaioa: I'm back on my computer, and again it looks like a black box... --DannyS712 (talk) 02:08, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Rose Abrams,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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Your draft article, Draft:Beach episode

Hello, Gaioa. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Beach episode".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 08:30, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Is there life on Mars? listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Is there life on Mars?. Since you had some involvement with the Is there life on Mars? redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. — the Man in Question (in question) 23:59, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

MfD

Hey, just a reminder that you need to transclude deletion debates on the relevant page - I just added Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Times that 100 Wikipedians supported an RFX to WP:MFD. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 19:04, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Ah, of course! Sorry, slipped my mind. Thanks. Gaioa (T C L) 11:20, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kimberly Loaiza

Hello Gaioa,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Kimberly Loaiza for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Isingness (talk) 23:36, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kimberly Loaiza

The article Kimberly Loaiza has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Cahk (talk) 08:51, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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Nomination of Badabun for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Badabun is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Badabun until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. letcreate123 (talk) 19:51, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

"Zero G flight" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Zero G flight. Since you had some involvement with the Zero G flight redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 05:21, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Missing source

I removed a number of entries at List of projected death tolls from nuclear attacks on cities which were sourced to a dead Dropbox link [2]. You had originally added it here, do you know what the original source may have been? –dlthewave ☎ 18:43, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Doki Doki Literature Club! can make a Hebrew Version?

I was thinking of making a Hebrew version f the page "Doki Doki Literature Club!", i think pages like this should be in the Hebrew Wikipedia and too bad they arn't...Dimwit1234567 (talk) 12:34, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

@Dimwit1234567: Go right ahead friend! Just make sure to write the article at Hebrew-language Wikipedia, such as at this link.The Translation Tool could provide useful if you don't want to do it by hand. Gaioa (T C L) 14:33, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Vegetta777 for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Vegetta777 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vegetta777 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Discussion at Talk:Cold-weather warfare

Hi Gaioa, perhaps you could add some perspective to the discussion at Talk:Cold-weather warfare#Not global? Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 20:14, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

"Feminist nationalism" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Feminist nationalism. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 5#Feminist nationalism until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 17:57, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

"Corporate city" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Chinese SSR" listed at Redirects for discussion

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"Demo-1" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Feminist music

Please do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.

Andrew nyr (talk, contribs) 20:02, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

@Andrew nyr: How exactly was such a redirect an attack page?? I'm genuinely curious about your reasoning. Even the admin that came to check didn't agree and rejected deletion. Gaioa (T C L) 10:04, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

@Andrew nyr: Not responding? Oh well. But please train some WP:AGF, and think twice before slamming an innocent writer with that threatening template. Gaioa (T C L) 16:13, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Wow, it was a mistake. I always try and assume good faith, I genuinely thought it was an attack page. No need to slam me on your talk page either. Thanks, Andrew nyr (talk, contribs) 01:46, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

"Bonjwa" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Military marching commands moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Military marching commands, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. scope_creep^Talk 20:58, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Military marching commands has a new comment

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"List of highest medals" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of List of last words in fiction for deletion

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Rorshacma (talk) 16:34, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Missing cite in Metamorphosis (manga)

The article cites "Shindo 2016" but no such source is listed in bibliography. Can you please add? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Svick/HarvErrors.js]] to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata (talk) 23:48, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

@Renata3:  Done. That short-cite template was pure Greek to me, so I fixed it with a full cite instead. Maybe it wouldn't be good to link it to the "Publications" sections anyway. Gaioa (T C L) 00:38, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

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Requesting permission to use the image on deepfakeDebankitabasu (talk) 16:28, 30 January 2021 (UTC)Debankita Basu

Hi,

I wrote a blog on Medium on deepfake. Is it okay if I use the image of the 'Man of Steel' movie you have on this site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake? Please let me know. I didn't know how else to contact you.

@Debankitabasu: Information about re-use is available on the image's description page. You might also be interested in general re-use instructions. Gaioa (T C L) 16:47, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Metamorphosis (manga)

Hi, I noticed you reverted my recent addition of a short description to switch back to the item description on Wikidata. However, item descriptions should start with a lowercase letter, which necessitates setting the short description locally in order to properly format it. – Rummskartoffel (talk • contribs) 13:36, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Oh really? Sorry, had no idea. Will change the WD desc back right away. Gaioa (T C L) 14:05, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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Loss

I can't express the loss I feel at the reversion of my edit to the Internet meme page.

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In all seriousness though, I can imagine why people might want to keep it to a minimum, given the infinite swell of memes. I'll probably add the text alone and put the image on the List of internet phenomena. It doesn't feel the same though. Joe (talk) 09:09, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

JoePhin, If it makes you feel better, there is already a article on Loss (comic) where the minimalist reproductions are mentioned. Gaioa (T C L) 09:19, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Cheers Gaioa. Joe (talk) 09:23, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

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Dylsss If you know of freely licenced deepfakes, then don't just talk about it. Upload a good one and put it in the article's top. Gaioa (T C L) 15:08, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Dictators - Kim Jong-Un by RepresentUs.webm and File:Vladimir Putin warning Americans on election interference and increasing political divide.webm (though I prsonally question the freeness of these considering deepfakes are made using existing images). But WP:NFCC#1 does not requie me to produce one, in fact it does not even require one to exist at all, it just requires that one could be created. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 15:16, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Dylsss, That was not a rhetorical question to counter your claim. I just asked you to solve the problem since you evidently know what material to use. Gaioa (T C L) 13:12, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

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Did you have a source for this having been another name of this person? I can't find one. The original creator was banned not long after its previous deletion, which makes me wonder whether this is in fact a legitimate alternative name.

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@Tamzin: Ya know what, I have no memory to why I created that page or how I found the redir target. I have no interest or connection with the topic and don't care about it either. I'm authorizing you to mark it as WP:CSD#G7 if you want to. Gaioa (T C L) 07:15, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Sounds good. I talked with someone who's better at historical research than I am, and we walked away fairly confident that it's not a valid alternative name (and thus presumably a weird idiosyncracy or hoax, on the part of the original creator), so I've gone ahead and G7'd. Thanks. :) -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 07:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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Ping glitch

You can ignore that ping. It was a glitch caused by tweaking the indentation on your comment while adding a new comment of my own, which I guess mw:Extension:Echo interpreted as me pinging you. I'm looking into whether I need to file a bug for this. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 11:07, 8 August 2021 (UTC)